Example sentences of "could [not/n't] [verb] home " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was not a tall man and was soon almost dwarfed by his five lively , wryly humorous sons , who avoided him as far as possible and could not leave home soon enough . |
| 2 | But she could not go home , given how she felt ; fit to throw a tantrum . |
| 3 | Second , Syracuse operated an incentive system whereby crews which finished early could not go home until all the crews had finished ; consequently , those which finished early had an incentive to help the others . |
| 4 | Whilst Rowe and Lambert took exception to the then prevailing view that children should , and more important could , be returned to their own families , they were strongly committed to family care as the main form of substitute care for those children who could not return home . |
| 5 | Bicycle Thieves did not sound very promising , but he could not return home now . |
| 6 | If he could not come home he knew he would die , too . |
| 7 | Blocked roads meant that many motorists could not get home for several hours . |
| 8 | But I could n't go home in the dark ! ’ |
| 9 | Something about there being no place like home but he could n't go home in the dark . |
| 10 | She protested that she could n't go home , that she was n't allowed to hang around the house during the day , and Bunny said he did n't care where the hell she went as long as it was out of his sight . |
| 11 | We could n't go home for a month . |
| 12 | I could n't go home to my mother because the relationship was still very iffy , so I ended up going to a hostel . |
| 13 | She could n't go home for money . |
| 14 | Eva could n't go home . |
| 15 | In another case Betty Jones who is 86 and unwell could n't cope with her senile husband of 83 , and because he could n't return home from the day centre a place had to be found for him . |
| 16 | He could n't take home business associates for dinner because he was embarrassed for them to see you . |
| 17 | Last week long-term season ticket holder Jan Buttigieg was incensed to discover that she could n't get home . |
| 18 | And those beetles of yours — the ones that could n't get home because the sheet was moving almost as fast as they could walk — that must be how it is for light moving through our space . |
| 19 | And er she used to sell corned beef and er pickled onions or anything like that for people what was working round there what could n't get home for dinner . |
| 20 | Yeah she could n't get home , otherwise . |